Measuring instrument.



PATENTED FEB. 24, 1903.

f C. M. TGWNE'. MEASURING INSTRUMENT. APPLICATION HLM) JULY 8, 1901. No MODEL.

UNITED Sina-'TESq lOr `lines extended to form a-rnle.

PATENT OFFICE.

CRROLL'M. TOWNE, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

lvlsAsURl'Nc.y INSTRUMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 721,622, dated February 24, 1903.

`Application led July 8,1901.

To a/Z whom it may concern: I

Be it known that Iv, CARROLL MrToWNE, a citizen of Ithe United States, and a resident of Milwaukee, inthe county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, have `invented certain new and useful Improvements in Measuring Instruments; andI do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact descrip tion thereof.

4My invention consists in a measuring instrument which combines a rule and calipers; and it consists in certain peculiarities of construction and combination of parts, as will be fully set forth hereinafter in connection with the accompanying drawings, and subsequently claimed. Y ,j In the said drawings, Figure V1 is a view of mysaid device, showing in'full lines the same adjusted for use as calipers and indotted Fig. 2 is a de"- tail sectional View taken on. the plane indicated by theline'2 2 in Fig. land drawn to an enlarged scale and illustrating the jointy and locking device of one of the arms, and

Fig. Sis a detail perspective view of vone end lof the inner part of one of said jointedarms.

Referring to the drawings, d b represent the outervparts, and c d the inner parts, of the said jointed arms.` The parts d b have opposed rounded projections e f, which serve as the points of the calipers. The part d is enlarged at one end and there provided with an arc index-scale g, and the part c is formed with lan index-finger h for use therewith, these parts being united by a pivot t, the jointed parts a c being similarly united by a. pivot j and the jointed parts b d by a pivot lc, and f the said jointed partsd blc d are further marked withv proper graduations suitably numbered to form a scale m. This scale may be applied tofeither edge of either face of the device or to both faces or to both edges of either or both of the said faces, as desired and The inner parts c dare-each provided with a tongue n, which Ymay be conveniently struck up therefrom adjacent to the outer ends of said parts, as best shown in Fig. 3, and the adjacent or inner ends of the parts et b are each formed with two slots o p therethrough-for engagement in the proper adjustment with Serial No. 67,445. (No model.)

the said tongues n, both slots being tangentially located at-intervals in the line of an are struckfrom the pivots j or lo. Consequently when the device is to be used as a calipers the tongues n of the parts ed should'be in env gagementwith the slot o of the parts a b, as

shown in full lines .in Fig. l, and when the parts are extended in a straight line to form a rule, as indicated in dotted lines in said fignre, then thetongues n will be inl engagement with the slots p of Vsaid arms a, b, and in either j position 4 the said jointed' arms are locked j yet are capable of yielding readily when it is desired to change from one adjustment to the other, and therebyv a light, simple, vand convenient tool is provided for either linear measfurement or for the measurement of diamef ters, as` required, one advantage of my con# struction being that owing to the described arrangement of the slot-s no `calculation is needed in the adjustment ofthe arms, as the tongues will always engage with one or the other of the adjacent slots, according as to Whether a rule or calipers is required.

My device can be folded together very cornpactly, with the parts d b under the parts c d, and then closed toward each other, thus occupying'small space, and the lower enlarged part q of the part d is preferably formed with a slight displacement of the metal at r, so as kto form a stop for the edge of the part e when the device is opened out to form the described V rule.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire'to secure by Letters Patent, isl They herein described measuring instrument, comprising a pair of jointed arms, pivotally connected together, the outer parts of each pair of arms having opposed projections adjacent to their outer ends to serve as caliper-points,and the meeting ends of both parts of said join ted arms being provided withlocking devices to automatically engage and hold the said parts in the desired adjustment, the said arms being provided with proper gradu- IOG ations to form aseale for linear measurement the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisand the inner end of one of the inner parts cousin, in the presence of two-Witnesses. of the jointed arms being provided with an index-finger and the corresponding end of CARROLL M' TOWNE' 5 the other inner part with an are index-scale. Witnesses:

In testimony that I Claim the foregoing I H. G. UNDERWOOD, have hereunto set my hand, at Milwaukee, in B. C. ROLOFF. 

